A finished skin fade at Baghdad Barber Shop, with the barber pole and waiting chairs behind.

Open 6 days a week

Barber shop · Lake City Way NE, Seattle

Just walk in.
You are welcome.

— hand-painted on the shop door

Fades, beard trims and clean cuts. 4.8 stars from 364 Google reviews — and 83 of them are about the staff.

Baghdad Barber Shop · 12328 Lake City Way NE, Seattle

(206) 368-7650 Directions

Cash only — bring cash, not a card.

364 reviews, 4.8 stars

83 people mentioned the staff. 15 mentioned the fade.

Google counts the words that come up most often across a business’s reviews. This is that list for Baghdad Barber Shop — unedited, in order, with the real counts.

4.8: Average rating on Google
364: Reviews left by customers
83: Of them mention the friendly staff

Friendly staff83
Fade15
Beard trim13
Cash only11
Welcoming staff8
Clean cuts4
Free drinks4
Fresh cut4
Old school barbershop3
Comfortable chairs2

Counts are the review highlights shown on the shop’s Google Business Profile. Read the reviews on Google.

The work

Fades, beard trims, clean lines.

Every photo on this page was taken at 12328 Lake City Way NE. No stock, no filters, no other shop.

Close-up of a finished skin fade, tapered at the sides with a sharp line-up. — A finished fade in the chair.

The waiting area at Baghdad Barber Shop: a row of brown leather chairs beside the barber pole, with a customer in the chair beyond. — The wait, in brown leather.

Inside Baghdad Barber Shop: white and chrome vintage chairs, a barber pole and reclaimed wood walls, with a barber cutting hair. — Vintage chairs, wood walls, a pole in the middle of the room.

A barber standing with arms crossed between two vintage barber chairs at Baghdad Barber Shop.

The reason people come back

The most-mentioned thing here isn’t the haircut.

Across 364 reviews, the words that come up most are friendly staff — 83 times. Add welcoming staff and that is 91 people who went out of their way to say something about how they were treated.

For comparison, the fade gets 15 mentions and the beard trim 13. People like the cut. They talk about the room.

Three reviewers called it an old school barbershop. Four mentioned the free drinks. Two mentioned the comfortable chairs. That is the shop.

Before you head over

Three things worth knowing.

Cash only

Bring cash. It comes up often enough in the reviews that it is worth saying twice — there is no card reader waiting for you at the end of the cut.

Mentioned in 11 reviews

Closed Mondays

Open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM, and Sunday 10 AM to 5 PM. Monday is the one day the door stays shut.

Six days a week

No appointment

The back door says “Just walk in — you are welcome,” and that is the whole booking system. Call ahead if you want to check how busy it is.

Painted on the door

Hours

Open six days. Closed Mondays.

All times Pacific.
Monday	Closed
Tuesday	10 AM – 6 PM
Wednesday	10 AM – 6 PM
Thursday	10 AM – 6 PM
Friday	10 AM – 6 PM
Saturday	10 AM – 6 PM
Sunday	10 AM – 5 PM

Don’t drive out on a Monday. The shop is closed all day Monday. Tuesday it opens again at 10 AM.

Find us

On Lake City Way, under the striped awning.

Look for the barber poles and the red neon OPEN sign in the window. The phone number is painted on the glass.

Baghdad Barber Shop 12328 Lake City Way NE
Seattle, WA 98125

Open Tuesday to Sunday. Closed Mondays.

Call (206) 368-7650 Open in Google Maps

The Lake City Way storefront of Baghdad Barber Shop, with barber poles, a red neon OPEN sign and the phone number painted on the window. — The front on Lake City Way — number 12328.

The back of the shop, painted in red, white and blue stripes, with a sign reading Baghdad Barber Shop and a door hand-lettered Just walk in, you are welcome. — The back door, painted in stripes: “Just walk in — you are welcome.”

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